Solutions Architect Leader, US/Japan OEM, Automotive and Manufacturing

We are looking for a Solutions Architecture Leader for a Japanese-based customer with a major presence in the US. This role will lead a team of Solution Architects who are responsible for helping our customer set and realize a technical vision that accelerates their digital transformation across various sectors of their business : Vehicle Technology, Vehicle Design, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Customer Experience, and IT.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated customer-facing leader to coach, grow, and partner with technically skilled, customer-facing Solutions Architects.

You will develop the industry’s best cloud-based solutions architects by enabling and coaching them on best practices, solution selling, and speaking skills - as well as how to create and present architectures of widely varying size and complexity to highly diverse customer stakeholders.

Amazon is where innovation, risks, and ideas are celebrated. We are builders. We try new things and dream big dreams. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are inventing the future of cloud computing.

AWS is where the cloud first came to life and now we’re inventing for the decades ahead. It is still Day 1 for us, and we are looking for curious people to be part of our diverse team of thinkers, testers, and doers.

Come join us to help customers to do more with technology and change the world in the automotive industry.

In this role you will need to be technically capable and credible within the automotive domain and use that knowledge to shape the customer’s journey.

You must enjoy learning and sharing new technology to help colleagues and customers embrace and adopt new technology. You should exhibit thought leadership to look beyond the technology, consider the value derived by our customers, and help them change how technology is viewed.

You will help team members ramp-up on AWS skills as well as help your team develop speaking, writing, presentation, and executive interaction skills.

You will represent your team to AWS executive management. You will also need to be adept at interacting, communicating, and partnering with other departments across AWS such as services teams, marketing, and professional services.

Come build the future with us! In this role you will love what you do and instinctively know how to make work fun! You will be dynamic, creative, and willing to take on any challenge to make a big impact.

Key job responsibilities

Display a strong understanding of solutions innovation. The ideal candidate will have past experience working with customers or leading architecture teams.

Ensure success in building and migrating applications, software, and services onto the AWS platform.

Hire, on-board, train, and develop new Solutions Architects from internal and external sources.

Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.

Coach Solutions Architects in the skills needed to conduct one-to-few and one-to-many enablement sessions so they can transfer skills to customers.

Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.

Build deep relationships with customer decision makers and enable them to be Cloud advocates.

Act as a conduit and liaison between customers, service teams, and Enterprise Support.

Ability to travel up to 30% as needed, both US and International.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Dallas, TX, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or 10+ year’s work experience in technical role in lieu of no Bachelor’s degree.
• 5+ year’s management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources. · 10+ years’ experience in software design, implementation, or consulting experience with distributed applications. ·

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in the Automotive or Manufacturing Industry.
30+ days ago